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Title: Weimar, TX: Dual abandoned concrete roadways in field
Post by: Brian556 on February 16, 2014, 10:30:00 PM
This is very interesting.

Nearby, there is an old road with a RR underpass that is obviously the old US 90. That alignment had been bypassed by 1940.
Map:https://www.tsl.texas.gov/arc/maps/images/map4826.jpg (https://www.tsl.texas.gov/arc/maps/images/map4826.jpg)

However, nearby, you can see an old road/driveway that is concrete. It is very overgrown and broken up. What is very strange is that part of it appears to be an old divided road.

https://maps.google.com/?ll=29.699693,-96.769123&spn=0.006598,0.012456&t=h&z=17 (https://maps.google.com/?ll=29.699693,-96.769123&spn=0.006598,0.012456&t=h&z=17)

https://maps.google.com/?ll=29.69924,-96.771518&spn=0.000825,0.001557&t=h&z=20 (https://maps.google.com/?ll=29.69924,-96.771518&spn=0.000825,0.001557&t=h&z=20)
Title: Re: Weimar, TX: Dual abandoned concrete roadways in field
Post by: bjrush on February 17, 2014, 12:45:03 AM
Good find

That is curious
Title: Re: Weimar, TX: Dual abandoned concrete roadways in field
Post by: briantroutman on February 17, 2014, 03:43:54 AM
Interesting–but I don't think it's really anything of note–highway-wise.

I found this 1964 aerial photo of the same area, and there's no sign of any pavement there at that time, so if this road had anything to do with the old US 90 alignment or was an aged public road in its own right, it almost certainly would have been there by '64.

My guess is that either the road is really a gravel lane (and just looks like cracked old concrete in the relatively poor satellite photo), or it was a cheap, thin concrete driveway laid sometime in the late '60s or '70s and quickly deteriorated.

As to the short section the looks like a dual carriageway–your guess is as good as mine.

(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1oFO9mV&hash=f726ced658a23bce4ba7a06256f3b45b8b00f5eb)
Title: Re: Weimar, TX: Dual abandoned concrete roadways in field
Post by: Alps on February 17, 2014, 08:30:39 PM
It looks more like two glorified tire tracks than anything else. I'd hit "ignore."
Title: Re: Weimar, TX: Dual abandoned concrete roadways in field
Post by: US81 on February 17, 2014, 10:08:15 PM
Well, I think it's cool, and I'm curious.. Sure looks like concrete when viewed via GSV from the E Street Charles St looking thru the gate....